Did it happen?

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
originally posted by Rahsaan:
But I do know that my twitter feed is full of intelligent people posting 140 character teasers with weblinks to much longer treatises on all sorts of issues. I'm an academic and from my professional perspective the internet has enabled much richer intellectual discourse with global reach, compared to 50 years ago when five old guys needed to travel to Cambridge to have an exchange.
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I'm a computer professional and I am interested how you curate the list of feeds that you read?
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#AFWE works for me

Ned Ludd
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
originally posted by Rahsaan:
But I do know that my twitter feed is full of intelligent people posting 140 character teasers with weblinks to much longer treatises on all sorts of issues. I'm an academic and from my professional perspective the internet has enabled much richer intellectual discourse with global reach, compared to 50 years ago when five old guys needed to travel to Cambridge to have an exchange.
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I'm a computer professional and I am interested how you curate the list of feeds that you read?
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Are you saying it's difficult to find good content on twitter?

I just connect with people that I know and who are in my social/professional networks. And just like this board, there seems to be quite a bit of self-selection as intelligent thoughtful people flock together.
 
originally posted by MarkS:

Technology sucks.
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Said the main typing on his computer on a discussion board about wine!

Yes, and amazingly it seems to concentrate wealth like never before.
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I don't know. Again, to be fair, just because wealth has concentrated in recent decades doesn't mean that it's without historical precedent. Feudalism was all about concentrated wealth.

I haven't read Piketty's book, but from what I do know, it would seem that the broad gains in wealth for American and European middle and lower middle classes during the 1950s 60s and 70s were the historical anomaly. And moreover that dynamic happened for very specific reasons (rest of the world being underdeveloped and the need to increase industrial capacity post WW2) that are (hopefully) unlikely to repeat themselves.
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
the underlying motivations for living through memories is very very old.
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I have posited for years that the magazine rack of your local drug store, FB and Instagram are nothing more than cave paintings, occasionally enhanced with Photoshop. Field and Stream, Good Housekeeping, People/Women's Health/Men's Health: what I want to kill, what I want to eat, and who I want to screw.
 
originally posted by Ken Schramm:
I have posited for years that the magazine rack of your local drug store, FB and Instagram are nothing more than cave paintings, occasionally enhanced with Photoshop. Field and Stream, Good Housekeeping, People/Women's Health/Men's Health: what I want to kill, what I want to eat, and who I want to screw.
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That reminds me of a friend's bemusement about what they like at a SF Whole Foods:

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originally posted by Rahsaan:
Are you saying it's difficult to find good content on twitter?

I just connect with people that I know and who are in my social/professional networks. And just like this board, there seems to be quite a bit of self-selection as intelligent thoughtful people flock together.
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I am saying that the volume of tweets can be very large so how do you limit what you see? Apparently, your answer is that you don't, you rely on the judgment of friends. (Shall I assume, when the number of tweets occasionally is very large that you just ignore them?)
 
I'm actually fairly new to twitter. I have never joined facebook (still don't see the need) and for a long time didn't see the added value in twitter either.

I just signed up for twitter earlier this year and only follow 100+ people, which is pretty manageable. And I have been pleasantly surprised at the various interesting things that I wouldn't have otherwise heard about. But, if for whatever reason I don't check for a day or so, I don't worry about catching up and ignore the older ones.

But, I have had the same thought as you for people who follow thousands of people. They must be inundated!
 
originally posted by VLM:
Did it happen?If you drink a bottle of Overnoy and you don't 'gram it, did it really happen?
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Not only did it not happen the same bottle will continue to be available for drinking in multiple locations until it is 'gramed. The proof is here.
 
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